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SCARLET FEVER OR SCARLATINA.
Home Case.
Children from this house must not attend day or Sunday School
until permission is given by the Medical Attendant.
All cases of "sore throat," "lumps in the neck" or of
"peeling skin" occurring in the household are probably scarlatinal,
and should be immediately reported to your Medical Attendant.
Suspicion should also be roused by any sudden attack of illness,
especially if beginning with vomiting.
Public Library Books must be taken to the Health Department,
Council Offices, New Maiden, and no books borrowed until the
house has been disinfected.
The patient must be confined to one room, and no one except
the person in charge allowed to enter the room. All unnecessary
furniture should be removed from the sick room forthwith, and
the floor and furniture should be frequently wiped with a damp
cloth. Fresh air must be freely admitted, a fire being lighted if
necessary.
. Attendants should wear washable dresses, should wash their
hands immediately after attending the sick person, and should
always wash their hands and faces and change their shoes and
outer clothes before going off duty.
No domestic animal should be allowed to enter the sick room.
No Children should be allowed to visit the infected house.
A patient suffering from this disease is generally dangerous to
others for six to eight weeks, and must not be allowed to mix
with other people until the Medical Attendant certifies that there
is no danger. There is a risk of infection while there is any
discharge from the ear or nose, or while the throat remains sore or
unhealthy.
Disinfection.
1.—All soiled linen should be at once placed in a tub of water
to which a handful of ordinary washing soda has been added,
soaked for 12 hours, and then boiled in a copper. Materials which
cannot be boiled should be soaked for one hour in liquid disinfectant
and then washed.
2.—Special cups, saucers and spoons, should be used for the
patient, and any spare food from the sick room destroyed.
3.—Discharges from ear, nose, or mouth, should be received
on a rag, which should be at once burnt, as also should any dust
collected in the room.